Trump hosted Putin in Alaska summit on Ukraine war but failed to secure ceasefire, though both sides reported progress and planned future meetings

The following is the full transcript of an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Aug. 17, 2025.

Despite Rubio’s credit to congressional offices that made him aware of the visitor visa process, the decision to pause it was seemingly sparked by Laura Loomer, who reported last week on multiple flights carrying Palestinians arriving in airports in San Francisco and Houston, which she deemed a “national security threat.”

Trump’s friendly stance towards Putin, on full display in the recent meeting of the two leaders, doesn’t reflect popular opinion in the U.S., says Putin foe Bill Browder. He recalls that, when he and Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza lobbied for the Magnitsky Act in 2012,

During a parliamentary debate on Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underscored that India’s military response was a sovereign decision. “We had said from day one that our action was non-escalatory. No leader in the world asked us to stop Operation Sindoor,” Modi told lawmakers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has blasted the "stupid media narrative" that President Donald Trump is going to "bully" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into signing a bad deal with Russia. Rubio pushed back during a Sunday appearance on CBS,

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday reiterated American President Donald Trump's claims that the United States watches the India-Pakistan situation 'every single day' and has contributed to preventing a nuclear exchange between the two Asian neighbors.

The United States monitors the India-Pakistan situation "every single day", said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, reiterating claims by American President Donald Trump of having helped in averting a nuclear escalation between countries.

You can’t cut a deal with a guy like this,’ said Rubio of Vladimir Putin shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine